fiercecirce
New Member
Here is the deal, I have an Ashdown Fallen Angel 180 head (180 all tube watts). I used to have an oversized Mesa rectifier cab and it was ok but not perfect. And beside that a price of inner bracing came loose and started to sound like hell. I ended up finding a cab with the perfect tone. So I got rid of the Mesa. I tried it next to the Mesa at the shop and it blew it away. It had way smoother highs and a more open bass response. The mids however were about the same. I tried the same head side by side and there was a difference but they were still both two really great sounding cabinets. Some time passes and I eventually end up buying the cab and I get it back to my band spot and it sounds terrible! The mids are terribly high to the point where it hurts my ears. I can't eq it out and the cab sounds thin. I've tried it at a bunch of other places and have ruled out the room and I've tried to run it at different ohms to see if that helps and it doesn't. What I don't understand is that they both have the same speakers. The only difference is the Mesawas an 8 ohm cab and the Roccaforte is a 16. Both have v30's. I do know that the guitar shop that I bought it from did remove the back panel between when I played it and bought it. Would that have something to do with it? I really don't know much about cabs and speakers so any help would be appreciated.